SOLON BORLAND (1811VA-1864TX) reportedly had
seven children. Thomas
& Harold ("Little Solon") with first wife Huldah,
possibly one with
second wife Eliza, rumored to have had one by
Creole lady friend, George
Godwin, Fanny Green & Mary Melbourne with third
and last wife Mary.
We found documentation the five known children,
Thomas, Harold ("Little
Solon"), George Godwin, Fanny Green, Mary
Melbourne plus Solon's two
granddaughters Grace Melbourne and Mary Borland
BEATTIE, lived lives any
parent should be proud about. We were unable to
trace his four
grandsons, Russell & Charles BORLAND, Godwin
Borland MOORES, or George M
BEATTIE, --- hopefully they too led good lives.
Material used herein from The College of William &
Mary archives is
noted with (WM).
3E. MARY (Mollie) MELBOURNE BORLAND
(1850AR-1938MO):
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mary, known as Mollie, at least during her younger
years, named for her
musically gifted and talented mother, Mary Isabel
MELBOURNE
(MILBOURN/E?) (1824LA-1862AR), was third and last
known born Friday, 28
June 1850 in Hot Springs, Arkansas while her
father was seated in
Washington city as Arkansas' fourth United States
Senator. First married
in Memphis to John M BEATTIE having three known
children, widowed in
1878, second marriage June 1889 at Little Rock to
widower Colonel Oliver
Crosby GRAY, died in Kansas City 17 February 1938,
following a lengthily
illness, ashes buried (unmarked) next to second
husband in Evergreen
Cemetery, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Let it be noted: --- Mollie, with daughters Grace
M & Mary Borland,
were, for some gracious and unknown reason,
dedicated to Deaf-Mute
Schools, totaling nearly one-hundred years of
faithful service.
She too was active during civil war days in
Princeton, Dallas county,
Arkansas and very close to her older sister
Fannie, is found throughout
Virginia Davis GRAY's (1st Mrs O C GRAY) 1863-1865
diary, published 1983
Arkansas Historical Quarterly, and both her
unpublished but transcribed,
'baby diary' of son Carl (later her step-son) and
in her letters. She,
in October and her mother in September nearly died
shortly after 1850
birth at home in Hot Springs with Solon rushing
home from Washington.
(WM) Mentioned in uncle Euclid BORLAND's 16 Oct
1851 letter from Hot
Springs, Arkansas to George GODWIN of Suffolk,
Nansemond County,
Virginia who with wife Fanny GREEN raised and
schooled her father (for
whom her brother and sister were named) and
half-brother Thomas, ---
"Little Mary" noted:
"...running about and talking
plainly."
Following death of brother George Godwin, June
1862 and
mother, October 1862, her father retained Ralph
Leland GOODRICH
(1836NY-1897AR) to instruct 12 y/o Mollie and
sister Fanny in arithmetic,
January 1863 until March when they left for
Princeton, Dallas county in
fear of the Federal troops overtaking Little Rock.
According to his
diary, Mr GOODRICH had a very low opinion of both
girls, but thought the
most of Mary ---
www.griffingweb.com/january_1863.htm
(WM) Mollie's letters of November 1866 & May 1867
(future step-son, Carl
Raymond GRAY's born, 28 September 1867), from
Princeton to cousin,
thrice wounded former confederate officer, Euclid
BORLAND, Jr, at
University of Virginia (Fay HEMPSTEAD of Arkansas,
a fellow student)
reveal; she thought herself at ages 16 & 17,
unattractive, overweight
and was bored with the town of Princeton, Arkansas
which had only three
stores and three churches (Presbyterian, Methodist
& Baptist), with
preachers visiting but once monthly. She loved her
boarding house lady,
war widow Mrs Martha A (Gee) HOLMES
(1816VA-1901AR) because she was a
southern lady from Virginia (whom her father gave
money and two female
slaves to look after his daughters when he left in
1863). Mollie's
penmanship was far superior to that of sister, the
Poetess, Fanny Green.
Mollie lost her entire known family except her
children, before she
died: half-brother Thomas, 9 January 1859, brother
George Godwin, 24
June 1862, mother, 23 October 1862, father, 1
January 1864, husband John
BEATTIE, 1878, sister Fanny, 23 August 1879,
second husband O C GRAY, 9
December 1905 and other half-brother Harold, 20
July1921. Fay HEMPSTEAD,
in his 1890 book, notes she and Harold were then
living.
Age 19 (1869), she left Arkansas with newly wed
sister Fannie and
husband, James C MOORES, for Memphis. (marriage
was at Mollie's second
husband's home, O C & Virginia GRAY) Mary, 21 y/o,
married John M
BEATTIE, born in Scotland, at Memphis, Tennessee,
bond (see attached)
obtained Thursday, 22 February 1872, with Fannie's
husband, James MOORES
jointly making Twelve Hundred and Fifty Dollar
bond. Its unclear, but
doubtful, this be same John BEATTIE/BEATTY
mentioned in Virginia's 1983
published diary, footnote #61, a private with
Twelfth Missouri Calvary
Regiment, from Kansas City, Jackson County, MO.
Their union produced
three children before John was seemingly caught up
in the Memphis yellow
fever epidemic, without records, most likely died
1878, give or take a
year as did some 5,000 others, including Fannie's
husband James C
MOORES, bankrupting City of Memphis, then Fannie
the following
year,1879.
Widow Mollie, listed "Marg M", in Shelby county,
Tennessee 1880 census,
appears to be operating a boarding house and is
less seven y/o daughter
Grace Melbourne. A check was made to determine if
by chance Grace was
inflicted with a hearing impairment, checking from
1879-82 at Little
Rock's Deaf-Mute Institute found negative, as was
1910 census.
Its unknown to me when Mollie returned to Arkansas
after going to
Tennessee in 1869, but in 1883 she was appointed
Matron at Arkansas
Deaf-Mute Institute
http://members.fortunecity.com/zoinky/deaf.htm
serving six years,
http://books.google.com/books?id=tjEWAAAAIAAJ
(search: 1st, "Mrs M M Beatie", 2nd, "Mrs
Beattie"), by new
superintendent Major John C LITTLEPAGE, ending
with 2nd marriage,
replaced by Celia Laura (Ramson) CLARKE, w/o
Francis Devereux CLARKE
(1849NC-1913MI) (Francis co-invented first hearing
aide). He assumed
superintendence in 1885 coming from sixteen years
at New York Deaf
school serving until he left for Michigan Deaf
school December 1892.
Younger brother Thomas P CLARKE (1859TX-1925WA)
arrived at Arkansas in
1887, and as a widower in 1914 married Mollie's
youngest, Mary Borland,
in Washington.
The Clarke family history is most exciting to
study, --- mother, writer
Mary Bayard and father, Colonel William J CLARKE,
see:
http://books.google.com/books?id=MQe5mTwIwWMC
(search: "Francis D
Clarke"), Mary Bayard Clarke,
http://books.google.com/books?isbn=1570034737
William J Clarke papers,
www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/htm/00153.html
Mary (Mollie) M. (Borland) BEATTIE is listed
living at 712 E 6th St.,
Little Rock in 1883, a Matron, when visited by her
friend, Virginia
Davis GRAY (first Mrs O C GRAY
www.webofroots.com/washington/pics/vagrsy.html
, mother of his
children). This visit is written of in 26 November
1883 letter by/at
Virginia's Fayetteville home:
"...a rambling English cottage type, olive
green in color,
with charming ornamental woodwork at the porch and
vines and shrubbery
in just the right places," (description by
neighbor Hattie E Williams)
on West Dickson street at Gregg avenue, were after
9-months illness, she
died of cancer, 1:30 pm, Tuesday, 17 August 1886.
Three years later, it
became home for Mollie and her two youngest
children, Mary Borland and
George M with step-sister Ethel Davis GRAY
(1871AR- 1910IL) returning
home from school in Wichita, Kansas, both girls
attending classes at
Arkansas Industrial University (AIU).
The 1883 Little Rock, Polk's City Directory listed
Mary BEATTIE as a
Matron at Deaf Institute, as did the 1886
Directory. Monday, 17th June
1889 widow Mary Melbourne (Borland) BEATTIE
married widower Colonel
Oliver Crosby GRAY (1832ME-1905AR) (enlisted under
her father, later the
3rd Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry, Confederate States
Army), in Little
Rock, both with teenage children setting up house,
as above mentioned,
in Fayetteville, at his home on West Dickson
Street, next west to
historic Frisco depot to whom Oliver had provided
eastern most portion
of his 2-1/4 acre homestead, purchased 10 July
1877 for $1000 from Judge
LaFayette and Mary A. GREGG, (their historic home
is west, across
street, at 339 North Gregg Avenue), he a Union
Colonel, and Supreme
Court Justice, credited with getting the
university into Fayetteville
in1871.
Oliver was appointed, among other duties, Chairman
of the Mathematics’
Department at AIU (after 1899, University of
Arkansas) July 1888
following his service as Mayor of Fayetteville
from 1886, that after
serving as first superintendent of Fayetteville's
first public school,
Washington School
www.nwanews.com/nwat/Academics/37048/
a school building he with fellow school
board member and neighbor, LaFayette
GREGG, got built in 1885 as Fayetteville's first
public school building.
Mollie and Oliver remained in Fayetteville until
May 1895. After serving
21 years at AIU & Fayetteville, he was appointed
superintendent of
Arkansas School for the Blind (ASB)
www.webofroots.com/washington/pics/colgray.html
, Little Rock, where,
26 years earlier, in 1869, ASB named their 1st
brick building in honor
of "Colonel Gray"
www.arkansasschoolfortheblind.org/History_of_ASB.html
(search: "Gray") It was built on, former Arkansas'
Territorial Governor
Senator William Savin FULTON's, property,
"Rosewood", 18th and Spring
streets, land once owned by Roswell BEBEE,
property at east side of farm
house (1870 platted Wright's Addition) where Mary
had been raised four
years, starting 1854. Mary is documented as Matron
for years 1896
and1898.
The Blind school moved in c1938 to present
location near Deaf school, in
1948, its old location buildings were demolished,
--- using 300,000 of
school's bricks, cleaned by prisoners, in the then
new Governors Mansion
now at 18th & Center Street.
A political problem arose in 1898 with GRAY being
replaced, however,
returning after a couple of years spent in Searcy,
White county, at
Speers-Langsford Military Institute. The Colonel,
re-appointed
superintendent died at the Blind School, Saturday,
9 December 1905
following 45 years of unselfish, dedicated service
to his adopted
Arkansas, defending it with his life in both, war
& peace, educating and
role model for hundreds of its future leaders,
such as, Honorable George
B ROSE (1851AR- 1943AR), s/o U M ROSE of Little
Rock who gave a glowing
tribute to his former teacher at his funeral,
published along with a
nice Editorial as well as Colonel GRAY's picture
and obituary. Papers,
in and outside of Arkansas published lengthy
obituaries of her husband,
several:
http://files.usgwarchives.org/ar/pulaski/obits/grayoc.txt
A crowd of over 100 past students and friends,
many in high positions,
attended services with Masonic honors at
Presbyterian Church, 5th &
Scott
www.arkansasties.com/Pulaski/OldLittleRock/Presby30.jpg
before his body was removed by special train
to Fayetteville for burial the
following day in Masonic Evergreen cemetery, next
to his first wife,
Virginia LaFayette Davis (1834ME-1886AR).
The Arkansas Deaf-Mute Institute is reported
destroyed by fire September
30, 1899, so Tom and wife Lottie KIRKLAND (born
New York taught Western
Pennsylvania deaf school, a twin sister was clerk
in Washington) went to
Michigan as did both of Mollie's daughters, Grace
M and Mary Borland
again joining up with Francis D CLARKE and wife
Celia, he heading school
from 1892, and jointly as Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Michigan,
laid corner stone for new school sixteen months
after other was
destroyed by fire, a month before his September
1913 sudden death at
age64. Younger brother Thomas P and wife had gone
to Oregon's school in
1902, then Vancouver, Washington in1906.
Its unknown to me how/why/when Mollie moved to
Kansas City, so her life
is lost to me for thirty-three years until her
death. She surely (?)
attended Mary's wedding in 1914, and possibly her
second marriage, ca
1927, to Dr John C BELL.
Mrs. Mary Beattie GRAY, "Mollie", passed away in
Kansas City, Thursday,
17 February 1938, after years of poor health. Her
ashes were:
"...buried beside Col. Gray.",
see obituary in Northwest Arkansas Times, 18
February, 1938,
http://files.usgwarchives.org/ar/pulaski/obits/graymb.txt
witnessed by
daughter Mary Borland (Beattie) Clarke-BELL, widow
of Thomas P CLARKE,
wife of Dr. John C. BELL, Belzoni, Mississippi
with step-son Carl
Raymond GRAY, President (actually vice-chairman),
Union Pacific
Railroad, Omaha, Nebraska, --- grave is at Lot 144
www.usgwarchives.org/ar/cemph/washingtonph.htm
, in Historic Masonic
Evergreen Cemetery at Fayetteville, Arkansas, east
across cemetery road
from her father's friend and famous Arkansan,
Governor (Colonel)
Archibald YELL's grave (see photo). We found
Colonel GRAY's stone
toppled to the ground in 2003 so sought his
Masonic brothers, the
Masonic Order, to correct, but ended up having to
correct it ourselves
spring of2004. We also reported, with copy of
obituary, the lack of
Mary's name on graveyard listing, and it
supposedly is being added, for
there is NO gravestone.
www.webofroots.com/washington/cemetery/evergreen.html
Hattie E. WILLIAMS' May 1958 published article in
Flashback of
Washington County (AR) Historical Society about
her neighbors the GRAYS,
mentions her high thoughts towards the 2nd Mrs
GRAY, Mary (Mollie)
Melbourne (Borland) Beattie GRAY.
see:
www.sallysfamilyplace.com/MulberryGrove/borlandsolon.htm
(search; "Mary [Mollie]")
3E-a. GRACE MELBOURNE BEATTIE:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Born in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee,
December 1873, never married,
served in deaf schools fifty-six years
(1888-1944), at Arkansas,
Michigan and Colorado, buried 1954 now with
sister's family in Belzoni,
Mississippi.
Grace M, missing in 1880 census, became a true old
maid school teacher.
She's found as an assistant matron in 1888 at
Arkansas Deaf-Mute
Institute
http://books.google.com/books?id=tjEWAAAAIAAJ
(search: "Grace M")
http://members.fortunecity.com/zoinky/deaf.htm
where her mother spent
six years as matron.
Grace M is listed as teacher in 1890, but was
first found for us in City
Directory 1893-94 in 2003 by Brian ROBERTSON of
Butler Center for
Arkansas Studies, Little Rock!
1900 census lists her in Flint, Michigan at
Michigan School for the
Deaf, October 1901 she graduated Clarke School for
the Deaf, in
Massachusetts,
http://books.google.com/books?id=57IKAAAAIAAJ
(
search:
"Grace M Beattie") going to Colorado School for
the Blind & Deaf where
Lon Chaney's parents were and where I met her
summer of 1936. see:
http://books.google.com/books?id=d8AJAAAAIAAJ
(1911) (search: "Grace M
Beattie") and,
http://books.google.com/books?id=xr4JAAAAIAAJ
(1915) (search: "Grace M Beattie")
Grace M was found in Colorado Springs' 1902 City
Directory, during
search for us by Pikes Peak Public Library, with
Grace teaching at
Colorado School for the Blind & Deaf, (started in
Colorado Territory
in1874, same location since1876) where she
remained until 1944, not
listed employed in 1945, remaining in Colorado
Springs last recorded
in1948, no City Directories again until 1951, when
she is missing. We
assume she moved to her sister's in Belzoni,
Mississippi where Grace and
sister's second husband, Mississippi born Dr John
C BELL, died 1954,
Mary in 1962, all buried in Belzoni, Humphreys
county, Mississippi
cemetery.
My cousin, Harriette Flora (Hopkins) ANGLEA, born
1921 in St Louis,
Missouri while her father was a medical student,
then of Pueblo,
Colorado, now California (whom I last saw in 1936,
now celebrating their
sixty-fifth wedding anniversary 30 June 2008,
still water-skiing at
summer home they've had forty years after ten
years renting, on Lake
Tahoe), told me, mid-2003, she remembered 'Aunt
Grace' attending Sunday
dinners in Colorado Springs at our grandmother's,
Maude (Wallick) FLORA
(1870IN- 1940CO), ie: Grace's step-sister-in-law
(widow of step-brother
Carl Raymond GRAY's wife Harriette FLORA's
(1869KS-1956ME)(reported as
first white child born in Montgomery county,
Kansas) younger brother,
Dr. William Walter FLORA (1871KS-1922CO)).
Dr Robert KNUTSON's wife, Eleanor Howard (Gray)
KNUTSON (1923ME-1994MN)
granddaughter of Carl Raymond GRAY, submitted the
1863-1865 diary of her
great grandmother, Virginia Davis GRAY, for
publication after meeting Dr
Carl H MONEYHON of the University of Arkansas,
Little Rock during a
Minneapolis Civil War Round Table, who published
it in Arkansas
Historical Quarterly, spring & summer of1983, in
which the Borland girls
are often mentioned.
Bob recalls Grace M and Mary Borland visiting
their step-brother Carl
and wife Harriette at "Gray Rocks" (first known in
1919 as "Friendship
Cottage") on Pleasant Point, Cushing, Knox county,
Maine during summer
vacations. (see Grace (left) & Mary's ca 1930
picture, on Harbour Island
in Maine's Moscongus Bay (once home for Carl's
mother's favorite uncle,
Richard DAVIS), furnished by KNUTSON)
Grace M was included in Carl Raymond GRAY's 1939
will. see:
www.sallysfamilyplace.com/MulberryGrove/borlandsolon.htm
(search; "Grace M" )
3E-b. MARY BORLAND BEATTIE:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Born 2 April 1875 in Memphis, Shelby county,
Tennessee, graduating "with
distinction" in Class of 1896 (see photo), at
Arkansas Industrial
University (now University of Arkansas), first
class to wear cap and
gowns. Taught nearly thirty years at Deaf schools
in Arkansas, Michigan
& Washington, (possibly (?) Mississippi) twice
married, no known
children, died 8 February 1962, buried at Belzoni,
Humphreys county,
Mississippi.
Mary's classmate, John Ellis MARTINEAU
(1873MO-1937AR), became Arkansas'
Governor in 1927, then appointed United States
district judge for the
Eastern District of Arkansas (a position her
grandfather, Solon, desired
in 1845, but didn't get) in 1928, receiving a
belated Honorary LL D
degree of University of Arkansas, in 1929, same
year as did her
step-brother Carl Raymond GRAY, then, president
Union Pacific RR, school
where in 1874, Carl's mother, Virginia LaFayette
(Davis) GRAY, was first
'chair', of their Drawing and painting, until
1881, (now Art
Department), while Mary's step-father, Carl's
father, the Colonel,
started its Civil Engineering School.
The University of Arkansas built & dedicated "GRAY
HALL" in 1906 in his
honor
www.webofroots.com/washington/pics/grayhall.html
which they demolished in 1966, hauling off his
honors with all other unwanted
debris to the trash dump covering it over with
dirt and then
forgotten,--- replaced with Mullins Library in
1966. Prior to starting
the engineering school in 1874, Oliver served as
president of first
chartered institution of higher learning in
Arkansas, Masonic, St.
Johns' College of Arkansas in Little Rock where
while president, 1871-74
was started their Law School, he soliciting
faculty members, U M ROSE,
whose statute stands in the National Statutory
Hall, Washington, DC,
Augustus H GARLAND, later Governor, United States
Senator. appointed
United States Attorney General and other like men.
www.arkansasties.com/Pulaski/OldLittleRock/StJohnsCollege.htm
Mary Borland BEATTIE is noted in the Sixteenth
Biennial Report of
Arkansas Deaf-Mute Institute, pages 5 & 24 (see
attachment furnished by
Sue WATSON of Arkansas School for the Blind), to
wit:
"Miss Mary Beattie, almost brought up in the Institution [1883- 89], and for several
years our successful Art teacher, was, during the session of 1900,
transferred to a manual
class, in which she did excellent work. At close
of this session she resigned, much to our regret, and is now a teacher
in the Michigan School for the Deaf."
See her written article and poem of 1911:
http://books.google.com/books?id=d8AJAAAAIAAJ
(search: "Mary Borland")
1900 finds Mary as #12 on Twelfth Census of The
United States, teaching
at the "Deaf-Mute Institute" but shortly
thereafter went to Michigan.
See Mary Borland BEATTIE's AIU school picture, and
picture with her
sister Grace M (left) on Harbor Island, Knox
county, Maine preparing
lobsters while visiting step-brother Carl R GRAY,
ca.1930's, This Class
of 1896 group photo, was, oddly enough found in
book by Ethel C. SIMPSON
of University of Arkansas, the supervisor who VERY
COLDLY refused to
reply to our May 2003 request for information
regarding the GRAYs, then
in 2004, as one of five committee members, another
being Dr Jeannie
WHAYNE, Chair of the Department of History,
University of Arkansas,
whose name is credited on "Arkansas Biography",
published 2000,
including Mary's grandfather, the Honorable Solon
BORLAND, using
incorrect dates and names, --- said committee of
five, refusing to place
a small sign denoting location of former "GRAY
HALL", ---- he serving
18, she 7 years as leaders and teaching at AIU.
This all occurring after
we first learned, via 1880 census, they had indeed
taught at AIU, during
our beginning days of this research.
Included in picture is Oliver's Presbyterian
minister's daughter, Lila
Chunn DAVIES, whose father, Rev S W DAVIES, gave
their Benediction
(Oliver served as Church Elder for many years).
Mary Borland moved to Flint Michigan where sister
Grace M and the CLARKE
brothers with their wives, Celia Laura RANSOM &
Lottie KIRKLAND, Francis
D, superintendent, Tom, her future husband, head
of ninth grade, were
all with Michigan Deaf and Blind school. She spent
until about 1912 in
Michigan then to Vancouver and Washington's deaf
school where Thomas P
CLARKE, s/o Mary Bayard and Colonel William J
CLARKE,---- was
superintendent with first wife Lottie KIRKLAND
whom he married in
Arkansas, and who died 1913.
Mary Borland BEATTIE, July 2nd 1914, married
Thomas Pollock CLARKE
(named for past family members). The newspaper
article about the wedding
did not mention her mother, Mrs Mary M (Borland)
Beattie - GRAY by name,
stating only a few close friends and relatives
were present. Her sister
Grace M was her attendant. Her step-brother, Carl
GREY (sic) then
president of Great Northern RR (1912-1914) is
mentioned.
Tom & Mary reportedly returned to Arkansas',
Arkansas School for the
Deaf in 1917 where two important legislative acts
were enacted: one act
changed the name of the School from "Arkansas
Deaf-Mute Institute" to
"Arkansas School for the Deaf" and the other act
placed the school under
an honorary Board of Directors. Tom was then
enticed back to Washington
by Governor HART in 1919 where in 1920 he became
ill. Tom gave up his
position as superintendent becoming a teacher for
five years then died
August 27,1925.
An interesting side-note:
Tom was a proud owner of one of the first
automobiles in area in 1906:
www.columbian.com/news/strange/quirky/twisted.cfm
"Driving downtown, scattering horses everywhere,
Thomas P Clarke,
superintendent of Washington School for the Deaf
parked his car in front
of a downtown business. While he was inside doing
some shopping, police
gave him a ticket for not having his vehicle tied
to a hitching post.
"Tom told police this vehicle are not a horse!
Next day he drove into
town, parked right next to Police station and
threw a large weight with
a rope attached to his bumper on the ground. He
walked off and did his
shopping."
Widow Mary Borland (Beattie) Clarke reportedly had
a car accident
November 1925, uninjured, requiring $14.25 to
repair, while on way to
school but thereafter became lost to us, as was
her mother since 1905.
Fall edition 2007, of Washington School for the
Deaf Alumni Association
publication said she went to Mississippi School
for the deaf, however we
can NOT confirm such.
Her second marriage was in 1926/7, to a native
Mississippian, Doctor
John C BELL confirmed by 1930 census, at home in
Belzoni, Mississippi,
where he's found in 1920 census as single, 45 y/o,
owning home. She is
next found at her mother's death, February 17th
1938, where we learned
she had married Dr John BELL and moved to Belzoni,
Mississippi.
She and step-brother Carl Raymond GRAY buried her
mother's ashes next to
her step-father Oliver C GRAY in Fayetteville's
Evergreen cemetery
without a grave stone.
www.usgwarchives.org/ar/cemph/washingtonph.htm
Mary Borland (Beattie) Clarke-BELL died 8 February
1962, buried with
second husband John and sister Grace M, in
Belzoni, Humphreys county, Mississippi
cemetery. see:
www.sallysfamilyplace.com/MulberryGrove/borlandsolon.htm
(search; "Mary Borland")
3E-c. GODWIN M BEATTIE:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Born 1877 in Memphis, Shelby county, Tennessee, is
noted in a 1903
letter of his step-father as being in New York
working for the Oliver
Typewriter company and in the article by Hattie E.
WILLIAMS, published
May 1958 in Flashback, the Washington County
Historical Society's
newsletter, "OUR NEIGHBORS -- THE GRAYS", as her
same age, otherwise not
found before nor after his step-father's, Colonel
O. C. GRAY, 1905
obituaries.
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Additional Comments:
Much information concerning Francis D and Thomas P
CLARKE was gained
from Arkie Peart, who is associated with
Washington School for the Deaf
Alumni Association.
